Don't they teach kids to read, write and count in the elementary school in the US, do they? I am horribly shocked.
One has to remember that when the "New Left" gained control of the Democrat party during the 1970's and started to dismantle our military that by the late 1970's we had a hollow military. Our Navy couldn't defeat the Soviet navy at sea,, we had the ships but not the crews to man them. Ships would leave port and meet the ships they were relieving in their AOR and missiles had to be transferred from one ship to the other at sea. 1/2 of the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft couldn't fly because the lack of spare parts. The nation was anti military after the Vietnam war and morale was low among the troops. When Reagan became POTUS he had to rebuild the military that the political left had damaged. By the mid/late 1980's the mission was accomplished but it was realized that the U.S. and NATO couldn't defeat the Soviet army in Europe without resorting to nuclear war.The USSR could field an army of ten million with in days or weeks. So a new tactic was adopted, actually a old tactic of maneuver warfare was adopted and it's still the U.S. military tactic being used today, maneuver warfare. http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/mcdp1.pdf http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a206250.pdf http://www.researchgate.net/publica...s_of_Maneuver_Warfare._Volume_1._Introduction http://www.researchgate.net/publica...ume_2._NATO_Defense_Concepts_and_Capabilities http://www.researchgate.net/publica...3._Soviet_Offensive_Concepts_and_Capabilities http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a211561.pdf
Not today, liberals and teacher unions control our schools. You teach our kids how to read and write they might not become dependent on government. They might not vote for Democrats when they become old enough to vote. Also there wouldn't be any need for H-1B visas. Nope, today it's teaching revisionist history in our schools and educating the illegal alien children of third world countries.
My point about Warsaw Pact troops referred to the lowest level of conscripts who did not even have the most basic of training or education. They could do no more than make an X for their signature. Teaching them to operate the most basic military equipment was not that difficult as they had worked on similar equipment in the various co-ops where they lived. That was one reason why most Soviet military equipment was built so rudimentary. The AK-47 was and is a superb example of a weapon meant for anyone to use and maintain. It was the reason why Soviet military strategy was to keep all command and control at the highest levels, never allowing anyone below that level to ever make any military decisions. Everything to be done en masse with little or no individual actions. That made the much vaunted assault through the Fulda Gap a no go from the start. Massing all those weapons and troops in one small area made it no more than a duck hunt for the allies facing it.
I've read more than a few debriefings of German soldiers after the war (WW ll) and when asked their opinion of the Soviet soldier they said they seemed to be uneducated and just plain stupid who couldn't fight unless there was a Soviet officer behind them telling them what to do. The Army's War College did a study asking the question who made the best infantrymen ? I'll leave out the race and ethnicity part but the best rifleman is a male between the ages of 25 to 28 years of age with two years of college education under their belts.
My point was that your point is retarded. If you consider your youth so dumb it can't properly write and count after it's graduation from school it is your business. It is naive to think it is anywhere close to that in other countries. Besides, that is coming from a country, which hires majority of it's soldiers from those who failed to get into college or failed to find a proper job. Pot. Kettle. Black. I'll just leave that incompetetnt reasoning for Soviet command structure. You can create your own thread for that and stop spoiling this one with offtopic.
Camp Casey , South Korea. 7-th Cavalry Regiment - 2-nd Infantry Division, US and South Korean soldiers at the event.
Year 2015, Yemen. T-34-85 and SU-100 are still in service. Panzer I Deploying M4 on a shore F-15 and F-22 B-52 graveyard F-18
T-15 heavy IFV T-14 MBT T-34-57 AMX-50 FW- 190 / F- 8 fighter, equipped with Sondergeraet SG 11ZA «Forstersonde» anti-tank system. The complex consisted of six 77 -mm guns , which shoot sabots and a control system , consisting of a magnetic field sensor and control units. When flown directly over tanks sensor was triggered , and a pair of projectiles was shot, in theory hitting tank to the roof.
SS troops on the North Pz.IV Raketenwerfer Missile tank on Panzer IV chassis, armed with four wire-guided Х-7 Rottkapptchen AT missiles. Fau-1 Panzaer VI B (Tiger II), France, 1944 Tu-142 and his friends Severodvinsk shipyard
B-24 bombing a Romanian city of some sort Panzer I Ausf. A, Poland, 1939 Stryker MGS AS-90 Mosul, Iraq, 2004 ----
